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zvoqueyesterday at 11:09 PM1 replyview on HN

I've thought that skills and small scripts > MCP for quite a while now, tried out MCP in the early days (official ones, ones i made for scripts i already had), but they always end up using more tool calls/tokens than if i had just written a script + skill for claude.


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eikenberryyesterday at 11:12 PM

MCP seems like what you'd do when you want to encapsulate and share a skill+script in a standard way.

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